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...glamorous jet setters in the world. Grace Kelly, Maria Callas and Gianni Agnelli toted the streamlined, masterfully designed luggage. It was the quality and inconspicuous style that set Valextra apart from its logo-ridden competitors of the day. Founded in 1937 by Giovanni Fontana, Valextra boasted handmade bags in evergreen, sleek shapes. Pergamena white became the brand's trademark color after its first set of luggage, made of untreated goat leather, got wet and altered shades. A bit impractical for the average traveler, white reinforced the air of luxury possessed by Valextra. In 1954 the company won the prestigious Compasso...
...wife and kids home to hold down the fort or moving the entire family from town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts her career on hold once she gets married," says Coontz. "It's part of an avalanche of evidence that marriage...
...Like other tabs, WWN had its evergreen celebrities. One was John F. Kennedy, who would show up every few years glimpsed behind estate gates. In 1993, a year before her death, his widow Jackie was "photographed" in a reunion with the wheelchair-bound President. The writers also proclaimed "JFK Proven Alive!" because they held a seance to talk to his ghost and the ghost didn't answer. Can't argue with that logic...
...UNITED STATES?" But her life as a collector was not quite complete. From the '50s on, she moved past Pop and Minimalism to focus on the more quirky kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying art in the 1960s, and doing so intelligently, I must say." Three years before her death in 1979, she had the prescience to bequeath her palazzo and its collection to her uncle's foundation, which eventually opened it to the public as a museum. "There...
...stale, and serve as deterrents to new listeners he hasn’t yet won over. Songs like “Colleen” are inescapable on the new album. Boringly poppy, they are plagued by lyrics like, “Colleen / Never to be crowned queen / Never an evergreen / Floating above the scene / Still as a figurine / Expression is so serene / But I know it makes you scream.” In times past, Leo’s lyrics revealed their subtleties slowly, offering the greatest of musical rewards—that is, for those who stayed with...